I read the transcript on Drudge yesterday. Was not impressed. Only saw a few clips on tv last night. Was not impressed. Bill let m m get away with calling our troops "children", like they're only in kindergarten & not men and women.

Bill blew what could have been great. Email Bill and tell him how he "blew it!" I did.

Since he's probably bombarded with emails about the Moore interview here is the one I sent him.

Bill,

Don't let the liberals frame the question: "Would you sacrifice your children for Fallujah or Iraq?"

Our soldiers and marines may be our sons and daughters but they are NOT children. Our military services are all voluntary, and whether we like it or not these are young adult men and women who are able to make up their own minds.

We are not marching 10-12 year olds down to the recruiter and saying "Please take our child to Iraq to be sacrificed for "Big Oil".

The way the libs are framing the question is abominable and they should be called on it. You failed to do that with Michael Moore last night.

The question is that if bush lied like moore said, then why isn't he going after clinton or kerry or any of the other congressman or senators for lying about the WMDs? I mean clinton said Iraq had WMDs too and he also lied. Does anyone else see a double stnadard, but of course Oreilly wasn't smart enough to point it out.

I thought O'Reilly made a mistake by falling into Moore's trap by trying to answer his "Would you send your children to Iraq?" question.

The proper answer would have been, "My children would need to be 18 or older to sign up at a recruiting station and as such I would not be sending them anywhere. They would be volunteering to go. Just like everyone else who is in our military."

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posted on 07/28/2004 11:17:22 AM PDT
by Bloody Sam Roberts
(May the wings of Liberty never lose so much as a feather.)

Fox News had a GREAT interview with an Iraqi who actually was shot and fell into a mass grave, faked death and then literally crawled out latewr and survived. If Repubs could get this guy at their convention and tell his story and re frame this whole Iraq issue... Election is in the bag...

O'Reilly could have done so much better. I'm thinking he gave MOO a pass either to try to convince MOO to return to his show, or because they made a prior agreement to only ask pre-read and prepared questions.

I like O'Reilly, but he blew the interview, especially on WMD. Bill admitted that the CIA was wrong and that Bush's statement was not correct, but it was not a lie.

The obvious follow up is this:

OK, we did not find stockpiles of WMD's, but we have found a few dozen which could have been capable of killing tens of thousands of people. Why did the "inspector's not find those? Also, how would we have found them if we had not gone into Iraq with our military?

Are you, Mr. Moore, willing to risk thousands of lives on inspections that did not work and on Saddam Hussein's word that he does not have WMD's? I'm not, Bush is not. But apparently John Kerry is. What say you Mr. Moore?

Why are you 'exploiting' the 9/11 tragedy to make money?

The question he should have asked was: Why does anybody care what two overweight bloviating loudmouth doofuses like us thing?

Could this thing possibly be a little more overblown, really people, OReilly stopped being interesting the day his rating came close to Larry King, that's when he sold out and became all about outrage and volume. Who cares what he has to say to anybody, much less an equally uninteresting michael Moore.

The Left does not get the point that WMD's or not, the US now knows for sure. That's a big question to know a certain answer to.

Was it worth a thousand US lives to invade Iraq? Only history and the people who will not be blown up by a nuclear weapon made in Iraq and placed in Boston by Al Qaeda will know for sure. Hussein had options and chose not to use them. Israel was getting close to using the "Samson Option" against the Baghdad support of the suicide bombers. This left the US with only one option. Invade Iraq to find out for sure and to remove Hussein and the funds for suicide bombers in the process. Hussein's money was a "WMD" in its own way.

O'Reilly is sooooo tiresome...his endless pandering to the Libs who do watch his show so they won't go elsewhere...he must constantly push his "independence" and his harangue that, " the other side does it, too." He says this no matter how offensive the Lib behavior being described and without the "proof" that he demands from viewers that write in with their complaints.

O'Reilly is sooooo tiresome...his endless pandering to the Libs who do watch his show so they won't go elsewhere...he must constantly push his "independence" and his harangue that, " the other side does it, too." He says this no matter how offensive the Lib behavior being described and without the "proof" that he demands from viewers that write in with their complaints.

First of all...Is he bigger than the convention ? Granted the convention is boooooring, but I am sick of pundits ! Talk AFTER the event, not during.

Moore cleaned his clock. O'Reilly stammered...and he is the biggest school yard bully on t.v. He embarrassed himself imo, and I thought Moore (who I have no use for by the way )..had a better demeanor, better argument for his "cause", and was talking with conviction.

O'Reilly had upper most in mind ONLY to make a fool out of Moore..and WIN THE BIG EVENT. He is a " fake , phoney fraud " (ala/Bob Grant ! )

Exactly. I was rather disappointed in O'Reilly's inabiltiy to directly and firmly answer Moore's comment about sending kids over there. I was hoping he'd chew him up. It seemed as if he backed off of Moore-and I think he shouldn't have.

Moore is an anarchist. You laid down and rolled over for him. The only thing you didn't let him do was rub your quivering little tummy. Your so-called interview was a demonstration of what a member of the media does to get "the big one" on air. You sold out.

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posted on 07/28/2004 11:59:21 AM PDT
by Use It Or Lose It
(Ta-Ray-Zuh : Your meds are showing.)

I used to watch BOR every night. Now, I maybe tune in once a week, if at all! He is riding the coat tails of the Fox News Network and could never pull off a show on his own on another network. I find him neither informative nor interesting any more. He is more about promoting BOR than anything else!

How 'bout "You've admitted that you don't really care if what you portray on the screen is accurate and truthful, as long as it gets your point across. And you express great disgust that 'Bush lied'. Why is all right for you to lie and yet outrageous if Bush does?"

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posted on 07/28/2004 12:16:52 PM PDT
by Intolerant in NJ
(I'm a Vietnam-era vet - I knew war heroes - John Kerry is no war hero))

Hope there is another meat wagon waiting for LAME CONSERVATIVE WANNA-BE BLOWHARDS such as Bill O'Reilly. What a waste. You'd think he was interviewing for CNN the way he's pandering and sucking up to these liberal slugs at the DNC this week.

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posted on 07/28/2004 7:51:37 PM PDT
by Happy2BMe
(JOHN KERRY is as much like the WORKING MAN as WHOOPIE GOLDBERG is to GEORGE W. BUSH! - Vote BUSH!)

"Why are you demoralizing our troops who are fighting and dying in Iraq with your 9/11 film?"

Moore has said it is "patriotism" to not want the troops to "fight to support a lie". He also constantly makes up stories of GI's who he says told him they once despised him and now love him. Of course no names are EVER mentioned. You can't get this guy easily. Because, like most Liberal Liars, they have an answer to fit any question, and no amount of falsity required will deter them.

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posted on 07/28/2004 11:09:08 PM PDT
by montag813
("A nation can survive fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.")

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